4th Symposium: Can the biological sciences act as a ground for ethics?

At the end of the 20th century, Edward O. Wilson utilized natural selection to explain the presence of cooperation and altruism in many animals, including humans.

Wilson's perspective led to academic debates surrounding two primary arguments: (1) whether ethics is grounded in biology and (2) to what extent ethics is influenced by conscious, rational decisions guided by established principles in a societal context. Scholars have presented two distinct viewpoints based on the foundation of ethics: one positing that ethics stems from biology and another suggesting that ethics has its roots in the cultural domain.

In this symposium, Yulong Xie and Dan Yu will dissect and deliberate on these two divergent perspectives, scrutinizing the macroscopic domain of natural selection against the microcosm of consciousness. Join us at 7 p.m. at Research Building A319. Those unable to attend in person can participate in our discussion via Tencent Meeting ID 501 205 253. See you there!